- Listenings: 169
- Listeners: 14
Performer description
Charles Ray McCoy is an American harmonicist and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his harmonica solos on iconic recordings such as "Candy Man", "He Stopped Loving Her Today", "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool", and others. He was a member of the progressive country rock bands Area Code 615 and Barefoot Jerry. After recording with Bob Dylan in New York, McCoy is credited for unknowingly influencing Dylan to decide to come to Nashville to record the critically acclaimed 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.
Participated in
Al Kooper
Alabama
Anne Murray
Barbara Mandrell
Bill Anderson
Blake Shelton
Bob Dylan
Bob Seger
Brandon Flowers
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Chet Atkins
Connie Smith
Crystal Gayle
Dan Fogelberg
David Allan Coe
Dolly Parton
Donna Fargo
Dottie West
Elvis Presley
George Jones
Gordon Lightfoot
Hank Locklin
Janie Fricke
Jean Shepard
Jeanne Pruett
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jessi Colter
Joan Baez
Joan Baez
Joan Osborne
Jody Miller
John Stewart
Johnny Cash
Kathy Mattea
Kris Kristofferson
Leon Russell
Mickey Newbury
Olivia Newton-John
Pam Tillis
Patsy Cline
Paul Simon
Pearls Before Swine
Perry Como
Peter, Paul and Mary
Reba McEntire
Ringo Starr
Rita Coolidge
Ronnie Milsap
Simon & Garfunkel
Steve Miller Band
Tanya Tucker
The Monkees
Tom T. Hall
Townes Van Zandt
U.S. Girls
Vince Gill
Wanda Jackson
Waylon Jennings
Ween
Willie Nelson
Wynonna Judd
Discography
-
Sentimentally Yours
Year: 1962
-
Two Sides of Wanda
Year: 1964
-
Sings the Ballads of the True West
Year: 1965
-
Orange Blossom Special
Year: 1965
-
Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West
Year: 1965
-
Highway 61 Revisited
Year: 1965
-
Cute 'n' Country
Year: 1965
-
The Scene Changes
Year: 1965
-
Mean as Hell!
Year: 1966
-
Blonde on Blonde
Year: 1966
-
Nashville Rebel
Year: 1966
-
Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles
Year: 1966
-
The Peter, Paul and Mary Album
Year: 1966
-
Suffer Time
Year: 1966
-
Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter
Year: 1967
-
How Great Thou Art
Year: 1967
-
John Wesley Harding
Year: 1967
-
I'll Help You Forget Her
Year: 1967
-
From Sea to Shining Sea
Year: 1968
-
Old Golden Throat
Year: 1968
-
Sunshine and Rain
Year: 1968
-
Any Day Now
Year: 1968
-
Any Day Now
Year: 1968
-
What I'm Cut Out to Be
Year: 1968
-
Country Girl
Year: 1968
-
Nashville Skyline
Year: 1969
-
My Own Peculiar Way
Year: 1969
-
The Monkees Present
Year: 1969
-
Our Mother the Mountain
Year: 1969
-
California Bloodlines
Year: 1969
-
My Life/But You Know I Love You
Year: 1969
-
Connie's Country
Year: 1969
-
Beaucoups of Blues
Year: 1970
-
That's the Way It Is
Year: 1970
-
Easy Does It
Year: 1970
-
Self Portrait
Year: 1970
-
Waylon
Year: 1970
-
Kristofferson
Year: 1970
-
Penitentiary Blues
Year: 1970
-
Bridge over Troubled Water
Year: 1970
-
A Woman Lives for Love
Year: 1970
-
I Never Once Stopped Loving You
Year: 1970
-
One Day at a Time
Year: 1970
-
Number 5
Year: 1970
-
Forever Yours
Year: 1970
-
Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)
Year: 1971
-
Elvis sings The Wonderful World of Christmas
Year: 1971
-
Yesterday's Wine
Year: 1971
-
The Silver Tongued Devil and I
Year: 1971
-
In Search of a Song
Year: 1971
-
Where Is My Castle
Year: 1971
-
Just One Time
Year: 1971
-
Come Along and Walk with Me
Year: 1971
-
Blessed Are...
Year: 1971
-
Summer Side of Life
Year: 1971
-
Careless Hands
Year: 1971
-
Have You Heard...Dottie West
Year: 1971
-
Frisco Mabel Joy
Year: 1971
-
City of Gold
Year: 1971
-
America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song
Year: 1972
-
A Thing Called Love
Year: 1972
-
Elvis Now
Year: 1972
-
He Touched Me
Year: 1972
-
The Killer Rocks On
Year: 1972
-
Paul Simon
Year: 1972
-
Love Me
Year: 1972
-
I'm Only a Woman
Year: 1972
-
Any Old Wind That Blows
Year: 1973
-
Elvis (1973)
Year: 1973
-
Hank Wilson's Back Vol. I
Year: 1973
-
My Tennessee Mountain Home
Year: 1973
-
Slippin' Away
Year: 1973
-
A Lady Named Smith
Year: 1973
-
God Is Abundant
Year: 1973
-
Quiet Places
Year: 1973
-
If It's All Right With You/Just What I've Been Looking For
Year: 1973
-
My Second Album
Year: 1973
-
All About a Feeling
Year: 1973
-
Seven
Year: 1974
-
The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy
Year: 1974
-
That's the Way Love Goes
Year: 1974
-
I Never Knew (What That Song Meant Before)
Year: 1974
-
Breakaway
Year: 1974
-
Boogie Woogie Country Man
Year: 1975
-
Once Upon a Rhyme
Year: 1975
-
Poor Sweet Baby...And Ten More Bill Anderson Songs
Year: 1975
-
Connie Smith Sings Hank Williams Gospel
Year: 1975
-
Country Girl
Year: 1975
-
A Legend in My Time
Year: 1975
-
Night Things
Year: 1975
-
One Piece at a Time
Year: 1976
-
Longhaired Redneck
Year: 1976
-
Don't Stop Believin
Year: 1976
-
Lovin' and Learnin
Year: 1976
-
Here's Some Love
Year: 1976
-
This Is Barbara Mandrell
Year: 1976
-
Midnight Angel
Year: 1976
-
The Song We Fell in Love To
Year: 1976
-
I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore
Year: 1976
-
Lovers, Friends and Strangers
Year: 1977
-
Love's Ups and Downs
Year: 1977
-
Reba McEntire
Year: 1977
-
Pure Connie Smith
Year: 1977
-
Moods
Year: 1978
-
Honest Lullaby
Year: 1979
-
I'll Need Someone to HoldMe When I Cry
Year: 1980
-
Feel the Fire
Year: 1980
-
I Am What I Am
Year: 1980
-
Somebody's Waiting
Year: 1980
-
The Baron
Year: 1981
-
Leather and Lace
Year: 1981
-
Sleeping with Your Memory
Year: 1981
-
There's No Gettin' Over Me
Year: 1981
-
He Set My Life to Music
Year: 1982
-
Unlimited
Year: 1982
-
High Country Snows
Year: 1985
-
Walk the Way the Wind Blows
Year: 1986
-
Just Us
Year: 1987
-
Nobody's Angel
Year: 1988
-
Willow in the Wind
Year: 1989
-
Crossroads: Hymns of Faith
Year: 1992
-
Let There Be Peace on Earth
Year: 1993
-
All of This Love
Year: 1995
-
12 Golden Country Greats
Year: 1996
-
Generations in Song
Year: 2001
-
The Dreamer
Year: 2003
-
A Classic Christmas
Year: 2006
-
Pretty Little Stranger
Year: 2006
-
Sing: Chapter 1
Year: 2009
-
For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price
Year: 2016
-
Pretty Bird
Year: 2018
-
Scratch It
Year: 2025
-
Thrasher
Year: 2026